For better flowering, water geraniums with iodine.

You can grow geranium from seeds, but I prefer cuttings, which are carried out from mid-February to early March. At this time, it is already necessary to prune geraniums. After all, geranium is light-loving, but in winter there is little light, and the plant stretches out and becomes not very beautiful.

In geraniums, you need to trim the bare shoots to the height you need (but not quite to the stump, of course), new branches will come from them.

For propagation of geraniums, apical cuttings approximately 7 cm long with 3-5 leaves are suitable.

We cut the cuttings, making an oblique cut under the bud, tear off the lower pair of leaves, dry the cut and the place where the leaves are broken for 2-3 hours, so that the cut is covered with a film, and plant immediately in prepared pots with soil, water lightly.

To form a lush bush, we pinch the apical bud. We put it in a bright place, but not in the sun!

Many people simply cut the cuttings and place them in water; I advise you to put activated carbon tablets in a jar of water to prevent rotting.

Roots form very quickly. Then they are planted in pots.

You need to take a small pot. Geraniums don’t need a lot of soil. The faster the roots entwine a clod of earth, the faster the plant will bloom, and the smaller the pot, the more abundant the flowering will be.

In large pots, the plant may not bloom at all, it doesn’t need it - life is already good, why bother? You can even plant several cuttings in one pot.

During the rooting process, the lower leaves may turn yellow - tear them off when a couple of new leaves appear.

To form a beautiful lush bush, pinch the top on the 8-10th leaf, the side shoots on the 6-8th and constantly turn the pot so that the bush is even.

Geranium loves:

• sun (but tolerates light shade);
• warm (but will survive very light autumn frosts);
• not frequent, but abundant watering;
• good drainage in the pot;
• moderately fertile, even poor soil (otherwise there will be a lot of greenery, but few flowers);
• regular feeding;
• removing faded inflorescences to continue flowering.

In June-July, if necessary, cuttings can be made.

A very good feeding is iodine water: dissolve 1 drop of iodine in 1 liter of water and pour 50 ml of this composition over the walls of the pot. Don't overdo it so you don't burn the roots!

After such watering, the geranium blooms continuously and gorgeously!

If the leaves turn yellow, the reasons may be as follows:

• if only the edges of the leaves dry out, the cause is a lack of moisture;
• if the leaves are limp or rotting, the reason is excess moisture.

In both cases, leaves may fall off.

The stem is exposed, the lower leaves fall off - lack of light.

In summer, geranium really likes to live in the fresh air - take it out to the balcony or into the garden and plant it well in the ground.

At first, having experienced the stress associated with a change of place, the geranium will hurt, its leaves may turn yellow and fall off. But then she will delight you with abundant flowering.

In the sun, sometimes geranium leaves turn pink - this is a normal phenomenon, like a “tan”, the plant is no better or worse from this.

In autumn, when the weather is cool at 10-12 degrees, geraniums “go crazy” from this temperature!

You can keep geraniums outside until frost starts, until the temperature drops to +2-5. Then it will need to be cut, transplanted into pots and placed in a cool place (10-12 degrees) for winter hibernation or, gradually accustoming it to higher temperatures, brought into a room where it will continue to bloom.

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